Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q4 2020. The fourth quarter of 2020 closed with 366.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 4.4 million domain name registrations, or 1.2 percent, compared to the third quarter of 2020. According to Verisign domain name registrations grew by 4.0 million, or 1.1 percent, … [Read more...]
HomeContractors.com expires and closes at $51,000
HomeContractors.com registered in 1998 was left to expire at GoDaddy and closed at $51,000. The domain name looks to have been owned by a Jeff Sauer from Three Deep Marketing. Jeff is alive and well he tweeted today. He seems to be affiliated with another company now so maybe he left and no one else at Three Deep knew about the domain name. Three Deep describes themselves on this page as • … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by FXCA.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and FXCA.com led the way at $35,000. Defendable.com was second at $30,000 and bildelar.se was third at 15,000 Euro, ($18,131). 57 .com sales 21 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · burn.art at 12,500 USD · nimgroup.com at 11,700 USD · cor3.com at 9,995 USD *AD* Check out … [Read more...]
Buy3Dprinter.com sold for $12,000 in 2014 expires and fetches $2,000
Buy3Dprinter.com was registered in 2008 and was sold by a Dutch registrant in 2014 for $12,000 at Sedo. The domain name was purchased by Fizz, LLC. The buyer looks to be affiliated with Rebuzz.io as well. The domain name stayed parked at Sedo and has been left to expire. The domain name closed for 1/6th the price it fetched in 2014. Buy3Dprinter.org is developed but not updated for years. … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by PLP.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and PLP.com led the way at $117,500. Yamaguchi.com was second at $25,000 and GartenCenter.de was third at 20,000 Euro, ($24,291). 72 .com sales 22 CCTLD sales 17 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · onecandy.com at 12,500 USD · maximon.com at 10,001 USD · smileme.de at at 7,500 … [Read more...]
Global Domain Report from InternetX and Sedo is a good read
Sedo and Internet X produced a Global Domain Report that has a lot of interesting facts and figures. A great look back at 2020 with input from several industry participants. Page 22 is interesting, Domain-inhabitant ratio In order to calculate the domain-inhabitant ratio, they put the domains registered in a given country in relation to the respective number of inhabitants. You can read … [Read more...]
A no holds barred interview with Rick Schwartz
Rick Schwartz answers a multitude of questions on topics such as new gtlds, the future of domaining, valuation and a host of other things. I hope you enjoy the interview and thanks to Rick for taking the time. Q1) You have been doing this a long time, are you still excited by domain investing and if so why? I would say I’m more excited than ever. I’ve seen domains since they were basically … [Read more...]